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From the employer's careers site First seen 10 Nov 2026

Facilities Support

Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Facilities Support to work at Ladywell Unit for the Facilities Department, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

The successful applicant will have good organisational, communication, and interpersonal skills. You will communicate with patients, carers, and visitors as well as SLAM staff and health professionals.

The post holder will be comfortable with IT and be keen to learn new software packages and processes.

This is a challenging role, driving Trust vehicles, delivering post and laundry around the sites, collection of general, confidential, and clinical waste, also completing small-scale furniture moves.

Main duties of the job

  • To help provide a front line fully comprehensive, professional, and courteous Facilities service for the stakeholders of the Site and Community Sites
  • As part of the Site's facilities team, the postholder supports the delivery of hotel services, waste disposal, and collection and delivery of equipment and clinical items.

Job responsibilities

  • Respond to and update Planet FM service requests
  • Collection of clinical waste, domestic waste, general waste, confidential waste and laundry from internal departments and associated properties on the main hospital site, ensuring the correct method of storage, disposal and transportation is complied with and that equipment is always locked, reporting issues as they arise.
  • Segregation of waste and yard management, including Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (W.E.E.E.) waste items.
  • Collect and distribute items including post, pharmaceuticals, moving furniture & other items across the site and to Trust community properties.
  • Assist Facilities Team Leader as required with emergency evacuation or other emergency situations.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary: £31,554 to £33,270 per annum

Requirements

  • Full, clean manual driving licence without restriction
  • Experience of providing a service to the general public
  • Able to communicate clearly, calmly courteously and diplomatically with all levels of staff, patients and carers, some of whom may be distressed.
  • Able to work flexibly, responding to changing priorities.
  • Need to be able to carry out moving and handling duties with the required training and equipment.
  • Good written and spoken English
  • Able to enter data onto a computer system accurately.

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Skills

Required

  • communication
  • organisational
  • interpersonal
  • IT
  • driving
  • waste management
  • moving and handling

Nice to have

  • GCSE or Equivalent A-C Qualification
  • Fire Warden trained
  • First Aid at Work Certification
  • Moving & Handling Certification
  • experience of driving larger vehicles
  • Previous NHS experience in a Mental Health setting

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9334-26-1067

Apply on South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust